You can buy Balenciaga's western-style knee-high riding boots in store now, and Dior's resurrection of the once ubiquitous saddle bag might feel like a tenuous link to all things western, but what is a fashion trend if not a tenuous connection to abstracted references?
For years William Madocks had lived close to the margins, his financial affairs always being tenuous, if not downright perilous.
The pro-life, pro-business, anti-regulation alliance that has long shaped U.S. conservatism will become tenuous, if not impossible.
Invariably, the controlling issue of tenuous -- if not absent -- respect and understanding for gender identity is one that seems to be implicitly rationalized by the authors of these articles as acceptable because of the political implications of Manning's actions and public persona.
Both domains have not only a history of exciting discoveries, but also a tenuous, if not poor, replication record (Ioannidis, 2005a; Ioannidis et al., 2001).
And the others--their connections to life remain as tenuous as ever, if not more so.
"Hey, hats off to everyone who warned us about Bill Barr," quipped AG early on, "our support of him was tenuous at best, if not even just humorous". They could have spent a lot longer unpicking that sentence.
Within the Congolese Army, accountability is rare, impunity reigns, and these "peace deals" are tenuous at best, if not at times a mechanism for armed groups to get ahead.
And if that is not quite tenuous enough, LeFevre didn't actually work at Goldman Sachs.
Most photography, but especially this kind, has a tenuous reputation for truth-telling largely because of the camera's, if not always the photographer's, ability to record events objectively.
